The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-06
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NJ. BAsTHoLDI is receiving much attention
| from members of both houses OF Parliament of
| London.
SIR MICHAEL. Hicks BEACH is steadily regain
| ing health and lne cataract has stopped its
| progress.
THEODORE MUNGER, of Detroit, claims that he,
and not George Westinghouse, invented the
| railroad air brake.
THE death of Mrs. Isaac Osterhout. of Wilkes
barre. Pa, places that town in possession of a
public library fund of nearly 100000.
MILLIONAIRE MACKAY has had his name placed
on the candidate list of several prominent Lon
| don clubs. He hopes to get into two or three
WORD comes of the death of Nine Lacordare,
widow OF the professor OF zoology at Liege and
slster-in-law of the famous Dominican preacher
TIE late John f. Owens farm near Towson-
| town, Md, containing 2i7 acres, is offered for
sale, and will probably be laid off In building
lots.
MAJ. KossUTH, son of the celebrated Louis, is
a very extensive railroad manipulation in Italy
controlling the entire network of Western Ital
ian roads.
The Duke of Devonshire, now in his sOtb
year, enjoys robust health and thinks nothing
of walking mile and half to church and
home again every Sunday.
PRIYcE NAPOLEON, who is now living in Swift
erland is occupied with his long neglected work
ON Napoleon l., which Is to be a refutation of
THE reignng beauty of the Italian court this
year is the Duchess Canevaro di Zoagzi wife of
the new Peruvian Minister at the Qurinal She
is y Peruvian, but has spent much of her life in
Paris
In an interview Mr.. George Alfred Townsend
says that Washington city is destined 20 be the
literary centre Of this country. Mr. Hunting
ton says II care not who furnishes the litera-
ture in Washington so my man is able 10 ex-
plain things"
Mr.. MILLION, of Newark, N. j., has branched
out In a new field of meteorological science and
thinks there are millions in IT, He advertises To
furnish fair weather for balls, picnics, or excur-
sions weeks or months In advance, the cash TO
accompany the order
IT Will be remembered that Frank Vizetelly.
the artist, was supposed to have persisted in the
Inflated expedition Of Hicks Pasha. A Syrian
Greek who has arrived at Cairo SAYS that among
the European prisoners at Khartoum is short
stout man, with full beard wearing glasses "
There is every reason TO suppose that this man
is Vizetelly.
Tua interesting historical problem as TO what
Kind OF clothes George Washington wore at his
Inauguration has been settled. His suit on that
occasion was made Of cloth from the Hartford
Wooden Mandatory, the first wooden mill in
America. established in liSs The color of the
cloth was dark brown The President wore
white silk stockings, also Of American manufac
ture There was no Angomana in George
WashngtOn'S makeup.
1TG birthday Of George W. Childs occurs ON
May r. Last year Mr. Childs and Mr. Drcx,
united in gift Of $1,000 to the international
Typographical Union. The iourneymen printers
east Of the Mississippi river viii therefore cele.
hrate May " by presenting individual contribu-
tons To the fund thus started. The trustees OF
Ihe iund are August Donath. of Washington
one OF the editors Of the Craftsman; James j.
Daley, foreman of the Philadelphia Lcdger com
posing room and Frank S. Pelton prominent
printer OF Chicago.